Daily Archives: July 7, 2010

There are few equivalents in business of red carpet reporting – the showbiz practice of standing by the carpet at awards ceremonies and grabbing words as the celebrities walk by. The Sun Valley media and technology summit, however, is just such an event.

Never having been there (although I did once go to Sun Valley when the Allen & Co annual conference was not in progress), I feel somewhat jealous of the reporters out there in the Idaho countryside.

On the other hand, as a way of obtaining information, it leaves something to be desired. Since the media are not allowed into the conference, they instead stand outside grubbing for morsels. Read more

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John Gapper is an associate editor and the chief business commentator of the FT.
He has worked for the FT since 1987, covering labour relations, banking and the media. He is co-author, with Nicholas Denton, of 'All That Glitters', an account of the collapse of Barings in 1995.

Andrew Hill is an associate editor and the management editor of the FT. He is a former City editor, financial editor, comment and analysis editor, New York bureau chief, foreign news editor and correspondent in Brussels and Milan.

Emma Jacobs is a features writer for the FT, with a particular focus on Business Life. She explores workplace trends, business culture and entrepreneurship and is one of the paper's leading interviewers.

Adam Jones is editor of Business Life, home to the FT's coverage of management, entrepreneurship and working life.

Lucy Kellaway is an Associate Editor and management columnist of the FT. For the past 15 years her weekly Monday column has poked fun at management fads and jargon and celebrated the ups and downs of office life.

Ravi Mattu is the deputy editor of the FT Weekend Magazine and a former editor of Business Life. He writes about management, technology, entrepreneurship andinnovation.

Michael Skapinker is an assistant editor and editor of the FT’s special reports. A former management editor of the FT, his column on Business and Society appears every Thursday.